Williams was executed despite pleas for clemency from prosecutors and family members of murder victim Felicia Gayle.
The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams despite concerns that the convicted murderer might have been innocent.Williams died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday at Missouri state prison in Bonne Terre. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who was fatally stabbed during a daytime burglary.
Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office urged officials and courts to call off the execution over concerns regarding the trial's jury selection and potential racial bias—Williams was Black, while Gayle was white—alongside the fact that DNA evidence did not tie Williams to the murder.'Even for those who disagree on the death penalty, when there is a shadow of a doubt of any defendant's guilt, the irreversible punishment of execution should not be an option,' St.
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